The text also distinguishes a real quality from an additional or relational respect (iḍāfī). A real quality belongs to a thing in the relevant sense, while a relational aspect depends on a connection to something else.
For example, “Zayd is a teacher” involves a relationship to learners. Likewise, removing a veil is intelligible by reference to an obstacle, its removal, and what is consequently revealed.
An intellectual disposition is therefore not identical to a relational state of affairs. Either may supply a rhetorical comparison, but the manner in which the aspect is established differs.